Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - By secondary-level education, refugee girls are only half as likely as their male peers to enrol in school – even though they make up half of the school-age refugee population, according to a new study released on Wednesday by the United Nations refugee agency.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Despite notable progress on closing gender gaps over the past 20 years, women have less access to jobs, are more likely to take low-quality employment, and face barriers to management positions, a United Nations labour report has found.
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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Some Ghanaians have set up camps across the Sahara desert where they exploit and traffic fellow Ghanaians as slaves in Libya, according to a report of a fact-finding team.
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – In a historic first, East African Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) met with the Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina and executives to discuss economic challenges, opportunities and successes in the continent’s fast-growing powerhouse region, the Bank said on Wednesday.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Gor Mahia, failing to capitalise on home advantage,were Wednesday held to a 0-0 draw by Tunisian bigwigs Esperance in a CAF Champions League first round, first leg tie, at Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos, 70 km east of Nairobi
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Birmingham, UK (PANA) - Iñaki Gomez of Canada has been elected Chair of the IAAF Athletes' Commission by Commission members and confirmed by the Council, the global athletics governing body said Wednesday.
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﻿Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Eight Burkina soldiers killed on Friday in the terrorist attack against the French embassy and the army staff were buried on Wednesday at the municipal cemetery of Ouagadougou, an official source told PANA.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) – The role of information communications technologies in supporting rural women's economic empowerment, voice and status, will be the focus of discussions at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on 8 March, International Women’s Day.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the start of a tour of five African countries, Ethiopian Foreign Affairs minister Workneh Gebeyehu said on Wednesday.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Football can be a useful tool in changing attitudes toward gender violence among young people in predominantly male-dominated societies, a British Council programme has found.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is laying emphasis on regional security and counter-terrorism measures on his visit to Africa, starting in Addis Ababa, where he is due to discuss the security prospects in Somalia following plans by troop contributing countries to thin out troops.
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - About 4,800 migrants arrived in Italy after crossing the central Mediterranean in January 2018, according to an official report issued Wednesday by the European Coast and Border Guards agency, formerly known as the European Agency for Foreign Border Control (FRONTEX).
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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese opposition, which suspended its demonstration following a deal with government on political dialogue which opened 19 February, says they will resume the popular demonstrations from next week, sources close to the coalition of 14 parties told PANA on Wednesday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – An outbreak of H1N1 virus, also known as Swine influenza, has been reported in Laikipia in Kenya, where a child was confirmed dead, health authorities said on Wednesday.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has asked France to use its international influence to persuade the Sudanese rebel movements into positively joining the peace efforts in Sudan.
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Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Sierra Leoneans turned out in reasonable numbers at polling stations on Wednesday to elect their country's new president, members of parliament and local councils in the fourth cycle of elections since the civil war in 2002.Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday signed several cooperation agreements during the visit to Bamako of the Emirati minister of foreign affairs, Cheikh Abdallah ben Zayed Al Nahyane.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - The role of information communications technologies (ICT) in supporting rural women's economic empowerment, voice and status, will be the focus of discussions at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on 8 March, International Women's Day.Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian president Beji Caïd Essebsi has decided to extend by seven months the state of emergency declared in the country, from 12 March, a communiqué issued by the Tunisian presidency at the end of a meeting of the national security council on Tuesday said.Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has called on Africa to "join in the wave of economic freedom", saying the continent’s land and mineral resources should be "redirected to benefit African people and their economies".
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Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Polls have opened in Sierra Leone where some 3.17 million registered voters are casting their ballots to elect a new president, parliamentarians and local councillors.
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New York, US (PANA) - Latest data on development progress for children reveals that more than half a billion live in countries where the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are “quickly falling out of reach,” the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday.
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New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday denounced an attack against education workers that killed six, including one UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) consultant, who were traveling in the north-western prefecture of the Central African Republic (CAR).
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Marrakech, Morocco (PANA) - The first-ever CAF Women’s Football Symposium (5-6 March) has ended in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on a high note with participants lauding the ground-breaking, two-day event as a big step towards the development of the women’s game in Africa.
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